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at the base. Plant wholly pubescent, with gland-tipped hairs, 
except the under sides of the leaves. 
On boggy heaths in the West of Ireland ; abundant in Conne- 
mara, on Croagh Patrick, co. Mayo. 
Ireland. Shrub. Summer. 
Ptoot stock creeping. Stem woody, with brown bark splitting off 
in flakes, decumbent at the base, then erect, 9 inches to 2 feet high, 
branched, with the branches mostly simple, erect, and, as well as 
the rachis and pedicels, finely pubescent, and clothed with long 
gland-tipped hairs. Leaves very numerous, J to \ inch long, when 
young very narrow, from the margins being much rolled back, but 
becoming apparently broader when old by the margins unfolding ; 
axils of the leaves generally with fascicles of smaller leaves. Plowers 
3 to 16, drooping, sub-secund, in an elongated raceme. Calyx- 
segments lanceolate, triangular, pubescent, and with long gland- 
tipped hairs. Corolla crimson-purple, \ to f inch long, broadly ovate- 
ovoid, sub-urceolate, with 4 short obtuse slightly-reflexed lobes 
clothed with a few gland-tipped hairs. Anthers included, dark- 
purple, very long. Capsule erect, ovoid-conical, clothed with long 
gland-tipped hairs. 
St. Dabeois Heath. 
French, Mcuziese Dabeoie. 
Sub-Genus II.— PIIYLLODOCE. Salisb. 
Calyx deeply 5-cleft. Corolla-limb 5-toothed. Stamens 10 ; 
filaments slender, longer than the anthers ; anthers rather short, 
rounded at the base ; cells truncate at the apex. Stigma peltate, 
with 5 tubercles. Capsule 5-celled, 5-valved. 
SPECIES II.— M ENZIESIA CJ1RULEA. Swartz. 
Plate DCCCLXXXVI. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVII. Tab. MCLX. Fig. 3. 
Phyllodoce caerulea, Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 216. Gr. k Godr. Fl. de Fr. 
Vol. II. p. 434. 
Phyllodoce taxifolia, Salisb. D. C. Prod. Vol. VII. p. 713, 
Andromeda canulea, Linn. Sp. PI. p. 563. 
Erica cserulea, WiUdenow, Sp. PI. Vol. II. p. 393. 
Leaves evergreen, strap-shaped, obtuse, with the margins very 
finely serrulate, not revolute, green on both sides, glabrous above 
and below, except the midrib, which is pubescent. Flowers 
